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Rihanna disclosed during a TikTok Live that she has approximately 170 unreleased songs since her last album, “ANTI,” released in January 2016. She likened the volume of work to having at least 17 vaults full of tracks. The singer also discussed the artistic direction for her next project, emphasizing a non-commercial approach and potentially integrating visual ideas with music creation.
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Rihanna recently revealed on a TikTok Live that she has 170 unreleased songs stored away since her last album, ANTI, which was released in January 2016. During the session, Rihanna compared her stash of songs to having 17 vaults, each containing 10 products. Her partner A$AP Rocky had previously hinted at this extensive work when he mentioned during an interview that she was “in the studio right now” and "working hard."
Rihanna’s fanbase, known as the Navy, has been eagerly awaiting her next album release for years. Despite dropping a track titled "Friend of Mine" in 2025 for the Smurfs movie soundtrack, fans remain eager for a full-length album. In 2018, Rihanna had hinted at plans for an album called “R9,” which was to be reggae-inspired or infused, stating, "Reggae always feels right to me." However, she later clarified that her new music would not be limited to any specific genre due to her feeling of having no boundaries when it comes to creating music.
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Rihanna revealed she’s hanging onto 170 unreleased songs since her last album.
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she → reveal → album
“If there are 10 products in a vault, then I have at least 17 vaults,” she said during a TikTok Live for Fenty Beauty on Wednesday — that adds up to 170 songs.
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that → be → songs
A$AP Rocky, the “Umbrella” singer’s longtime partner, previously divulged that she was “in the studio right now” during an August interview with Jason Lee, adding “Like, bro, she working.
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she → divulge → Lee
She cooking, no funny sh–t.
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She → cook → ?
The Grammy winner’s last album, “ANTI,” was released well over a decade ago, in January 2016.
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album → release → January
Since then, her fanbase — known as the Navy — has been anticipating her next album, despite the release of her 2025 track “Friend of Mine” for the “Smurfs Movie.”
In 2018, she heavily hinted at a reggae-inspired or “reggae-infused” album she dubbed “R9,” telling Vogue at the time, “Reggae always feels right to me.
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Reggae → know → me
It’s in my blood.”
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It → ’ → blood
She also addressed fan malcontent over the next album, telling the outlet, “I know I have some very unhappy fans who don’t understand the inside bits of how it works.”
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it → address → bits
Later that year, she tormented them with an Instagram Reel, captioning it, “update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.”
But in 2020, she literally changed her tune, saying the album wouldn’t be confined to reggae, and explaining that she feels she has “no boundaries” when it comes to music.
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it → torment → music
“I’ve done everything — I’ve done all the hits, I’ve tried every genre — now I’m just, I’m wide open,” she told British Vogue at the time.
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she → do → time
“I can make anything that I want.”
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I → make → that
By 2022, she told Vogue she was viewing her “next project completely differently,” and that same year, she shared a social media teaser for her song “Lift Me Up,” which dropped in October of that year.
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which → tell → year
A year later, in 2023, she confessed to British Vogue that though she wanted the album to drop that year, “Maybe it’ll never come out and no, I’m not down to that.”
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I → confess → that
She subsequently explained to Interview Magazine in 2024 that perhaps her “visual ideas” were “leading [her] to the songs” that she “needed” to make.
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she → explain → that
In her most recent update, the “Love the Way You Lie” singer told Harper’s Bazaar last year that new music won’t “be anything that anybody expects,” noting that it also won’t “be commercial or radio digestible.”
She added, “It’s going to be where my artistry deserves to be right now.”
Then again, fans have speculated a retirement from music — which catapulted her to stratospheric heights of fame — could be on the horizon.
“Music was the thing that got the attention, but God had other plans for me,” she told fans at a Fenty event in 2024.
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she → love → 2024
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